Race and Political Theology

In this volume, senior scholars come together to explore how Jewish and African American experiences can make us think differently about the nexus of religion and politics, or political theology. Some wrestle with historical figures, such as William Shakespeare, W. E. B. Du Bois, Nazi journalist Wilhelm Stapel, and Austrian historian Otto Brunner. Others ponder what political theology can contribute to contemporary politics, particularly relating to Israel's complicated religious/racial/national identity and to the religious currents in African American politics. Race and Political Theology opens novel avenues for research in intellectual history, religious studies, political theory, and cultural studies, showing how timely questions about religion and politics must be reframed when race is taken into account.

Author: Vincent Lloyd
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 04/25/2012
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780804773140

About the Author
Vincent Lloyd is Assistant Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. He is the author of Law and Transcendence: On the Unfinished Project of Gillian Rose (2009) and The Problem with Grace: Reconfiguring Political Theology (Stanford, 2011).